January 5, 2025 • 46 mins
Storage Wars
This week we break down some New Year ideas!
Intro/Outro Music “Works all the Time” produced by Dominik Schwarzer
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This week we break down some New Year ideas!
Intro/Outro Music “Works all the Time” produced by Dominik Schwarzer
Three's Company Podcast is a part of the B-Word Media Group. B-Word Media Group is a collection of Spreaker Prime podcasts. For more information: https://try.spreaker.com/prime-program/.
Make sure to check out the legacy podcasts: Bleach Bros Podcast, Dads on Dayquill, and Fraternize with These Guys.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I don't know if it would actually go in on
that much peanut butter as ninety six ounces, it's a lot,
but I mean divided by how many how many balls?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
About four hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, sounds pretty good though, I mean, and then you
whip them all together and everything right, and then you
just fridge they don't freeze right.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, so I mix all the dough and then roll.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Like a pan of balls. Ended up being like forty
five balls I could fit onto a cookie sheet pan.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh yeah, rolled.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Them, stuck tooth picks on them and dip them into
melted chocolate, and then stick them in the fridge. Well,
I freeze them before I dip them, just so they're
not all falling off of the toothpicks.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're gonna make sure that almost like a cake pop, right,
just to let them set on there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, kind of like they're a texture of like a
Reese's peanut butter cut.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
These are Bobby's favorite snacks, the balls on the stick, right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, my mom had sent me some and I let
him try some years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But so I make those and then I make some
happen to me too.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's exactly what happened to me. I was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Let him try the balls, and now.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I can't get rid of this dude. Every time I
turn around, he's calling me or texting me or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean, Yes, clearly my balls weren't as magical.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well I think they are. I don't know. I think
he just had his priorities mixed up as all.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, so yeah, what else did you do with them?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I made uh Oreo truffles, which those ones are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Dope.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Do you like oreos?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh, doude? I think. I think oreo is one of
the most versatile thing that you can like make something with.
I mean oriole milkshakes. I mean, come on, like you
put that stuff in a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The fact that there's so many flavors, Like last year
I had done the snickerdoodle oreos and made truffles out
of them, so they were snickerdoodle Oreo truffles.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mh.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This year I did the mint ones. But there's so
many different flavors, Like during like springtime, I'll do the
the carrot cake oreos and make carrot cake Oreo truffles
with like white chocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I'll take that over your balls any day.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, well, there's still balls. Okay, there's still balls.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Then I'll take I'll take those balls then will sound better?
The ninety six pounces of peanut butter, yikes, that's a
lot of powdered sugar too.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean, damn, I was definitely feeling feeling old because
after mixing all that dough, Man, my my hands were
killing me.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You don't have like the mixer machine, like the cake
mixer or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, so I do have like an older one, but
trying to mix butter and peanut butter and powdered sugar,
you have to get it like thoroughly mixed to where
my mom's recipe it even said. She even wrote down,
sit down and get comfortable. This is going to take
(04:09):
a while. And I think I ended up. I think
I ended up putting on Home Alone one and two
while I was mixing the dough.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Damn it to both of those movies to get you
through to mixing. Yeah, its bananas, well you know they
mixed thoroughly. Then.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
The buckeye bowl that my mom always used is a
good i don't know, freaking three feet in diameter.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a gam a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it's a lot of dough. And that bowl only
gets used once a year.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, I would, I don't. I don't know what else
you'd be mixing in it throughout the whole year, but
just that one thing, yep, is a lot. Okay, Well,
so you baked your way right into twenty twenty five,
right into the hearts of everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And you? How did you do in New Year's How
did you celebrate your on vacation?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So, because California is our behind Arizona, I pretty much
everyone in the family ended up staying up until what
Arizona's New Year's time would have been, so out here,
they only made it to eleven o'clock except for the daughter.
(05:33):
We stayed up watching movies. But I ended up calling
back home to my roommate and we video called and
did a shot for Arizona's New Year.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I pretty much didn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That sounds it sounds good. I mean, because is does
the idea of New Year's e like? Is that something
like you have to do like a midnight thing? Or
like because I'm old now, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Really I I like to try to at least make
it to midnight that way, I don't I don't feel
so old.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh shoot, yeah, I typically it's fine like that's It
was kind of strange because for so long I always
be like like in Nevada or whatever, like all right,
it's already New Year's like somewhere else, it's already twenty
twenty five in the UK, like no word on monsters
(06:34):
or aliens or anything. So I can go to bed.
It's fine, you know, as long as it was midnight somewhere.
But this year was crazy because I was at midnight
before everyone else and I went I went all, I
went ham on it. We went to the parks and
I hung out with you know, Mike Wazowski and Bou
(06:56):
and a bunch of the other characters, and there were
dance parties and all kinds of stuf. So I was
just soaking up the parks really, and all of a sudden,
I found myself in front of a big stage and
Mickey Mouse was counting down ten nine eighty seven, six,
five four three two one, and boom the fireworks went off.
And I felt I still felt old. I just felt
a little less old because right when that happened, I
(07:18):
was like, oh dude, it's midnight, Like I have got
to go to bed two hours ago. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So yeah, that's how you know you're old.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When it hits midnight, everyone's like cherry and fireworks and
kicking shots and everything, and you're going, Okay, I need
to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm like, how long is it going to take
us to get back to the car, because I still
I could get a nap in. Yeah. It's a lot, man,
But all in all, I mean it's a great thing.
I think I think twenty twenty four was a good year.
There was a lot of good things popping off in there.
I think, you know, we made some significant moves and stuff.
In twenty twenty five, you know, it looks like it's
(08:01):
gonna be pretty great too.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So far.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's only the it's only the fourth when this comes out.
But you know, see what happens. It seems like you
got kind of the same thing going on. I mean,
I think you had a pretty decent twenty twenty four.
You got a lot look forward to in twenty five. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I definitely had some changes. It was a bit stressful,
as as you now, making any sort of changes end
up being a little stressful going in to kind of
find your footing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But yeah, absolutely. I mean I think we all kind
of struggle with that a little bit, right because it
seems like it's a scary thing. Everything that can happen
probably will happen, and you've got all these things, you
got to look at what's next. And I think realistically
(08:55):
we started, we started like the moving process, like back
in probably like late September early October, right like really
like packing houses and getting things squared away and figuring
out you know, dollars and how to move and U
hauls and everything, and then getting down here and finding
(09:16):
a place and getting back to work at jobs and
everything else. So like, but it's just now, like in January,
starting to feel like like we can settle a little
bit because the holidays, because all the extra that comes
along with that and everything else. So like you know,
like I was living in the airbnb for like two
or three weeks trying to find a place to live, like,
(09:36):
so there was a lot of like uncertainty going on
with like where we were going to land and stuff.
But I think when you when you face those adversities
and those kind of things and like commit to the
idea that you're gonna do better, have better, like you know,
those are the obstacles, and a lot of people say, like, well,
those obstacles are in your way, but those obstacles are
(09:58):
the way, and so like getting through with them, it's
much more satisfying.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
On the other end, Yeah, it's just more of the unknown,
stressful part that I sometimes react a little bit more
strongly too.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think everybody kind of deals
with that on some level, right, because you have to
have you have to have like the thing that you
go to to kind of get away from that stress.
And sometimes when you're in these situations, that thing that
you go to is not available readily, so you kind
of have to force yourself to go through it a
little bit differently. But I think you pick up some
(10:36):
different habits and things like that too. I'll tell you, like,
one of the things for me was like one of
the main reasons I moved here was so that I
could have just access to the parks whenever I want, right.
So getting here though, was once we got through a
few of the struggles, we were able to get that
(10:57):
address locked in so that we could do we really
wanted the Florida resident thing on our annual pass. You
can buy an annual pass. If you live in California
or Oregon or whatever, it doesn't matter. But when you're
a Florida resident, there's a different thing. So we wanted that,
and once we got it, like, I was able to
supplement a lot of like things that I would normally do,
(11:21):
like my toy box, right my comic book groom, my
studio right. Like, I didn't have all my stuff. It
was in storage, so I didn't have it alreadily available
to like look at or or collaborate with or whatever.
But I did have full access to this like imagination pavilion, right,
Like I could go to all these parks just on
(11:42):
a whim and kind of like get my mind to
do something different with the stress because I didn't have to. Really,
I think it really allowed me to think of things
and look at things in a different light, in a
different manner. And I think that's hugely important in whatever
you're doing. I mean, I don't think everybody's gonna go
(12:03):
to Disney World for that, but whatever your thing is, Like,
if you have the ability to go do something that's different,
really challenge yourself to do that, it's good for you.
It helps with that stress.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, I uh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm kind of on the opposite end of that, where
pretty much all my stuff has been locked up in
storage for almost fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And I really that's a question I've been wanting to
ask you for a long time, and I mean it
is probably a good time to ask it. I mean realistically, right,
it's real talk, Like, with all your stuff that's in
storage for fourteen years, do you honestly think that whatever's
in there is something that you just can't be without?
Like does it change you if it all comes out
(12:52):
and gets put in if by some miracle, like you
got a mansion today, right, like a ten bedroom house
and you could go pull it all out put it
in your house, does it make you a different person?
Does it make you a better person? Does it? What
kind of effect does that have?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I feel like it would.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
That it would kind of like remind me of where
I came from and who I was before I had
major life life challenges because all that stuff got locked up. Sure,
I put I put away in storage right before I
(13:35):
ended up homeless, right before I ended up on my
little short drugspurt, before I got married and everything. So
I've actually what was it about four and a half
years ago, I pulled everything out of storage in California
moved to Arizona, so I got to see and I
(13:58):
was driving my boyfriend crazy because I was wanting to
open every single box and kind of like revisit memories
and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And then yeah, you want to see the pieces of you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Sure? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And then a couple of months ago and October we
moved because I had a ten by fifteen and then
ten by twenty. I was paying four hundred dollars a
month in storage units and it was in a bad area.
I ended up gigging attacked at my storage like a
(14:36):
year ago, with someone trying to steal my car when
I was going into the complex. And so this year
we decided we were going to move both storage units
that were completely I mean tetrists the amount of stuff
that was in there into a bigger unit closer in
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a better area. So actually in October I back through
all of that stuff and moved everything into a ten
by thirty. And so it's like, I keep revisiting stuff
that's in there and Nope, still don't want to get
rid of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, yeah, do you I guess it? Do you think
like the stuff that's in there, Like obviously when we
put stuff in storage, like one, there is a necessity,
right because we can't we can't have it with us
right now. Like I moved from a five bedroom house
to a two bedroom apartment, right, Like I can't keep
everything with me, especially like I have lawnmowers and appliances
(15:36):
and stuff in storage, like I just I but like
I have to keep that so that in the future
when I go, like I have it, right but like yeah,
so like my comic book collection, like all my toys
and everything to your point, right, like I think maybe
a third of it is in the apartment now because
I just don't have the extra space and I want
(15:56):
all that stuff out, but I can't. So I do
feel like, you know, there's like a piece of meat,
like a piece of my identity those things that I've
collected and have put up, and you know, some of
them are like signed collectibles and stuff like that stuff
is in there. There's clothes that are in there, and
there's stuff. But like I don't know if if I
feel like if if I lost it all the day
(16:18):
or if I never went and got it out of storage,
if I would be you know, without anything I feel
almost like I would just keep moving forward as this
new person. So I guess I was what I'm asking. So, like,
you have all of that stuff, how much of that
stuff in there do you think is like stuff that
you absolutely like if you pulled it all out, went
through all of it, like you think like a third
(16:40):
of it is stuff that you absolutely need, or like
you could probably let go of some of the other
stuff just because like a version of you that was
fourteen years ago that put it all in there, like
has become such a new, stronger, like different version that
like you could just like glance at it and go, oh, yeah,
that reminds me of something I don't do anymore and
(17:02):
then let it go. Is that something you think you
could do or.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I mean I've done that maybe with a couple little things.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Honestly, it it's more of especially since my mom passed away,
it's more of, oh, this reminds me of when she
and I took a trip to Catalina, or you know,
I got this ear.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And you want that you want that stuff present in
your house right like somewhere some days.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, So, like honestly, because my storage, so the amount
of stuff that is in my ten by thirty, my
storage that had all of my stuff in California was
a five x ten. So we're looking at a very
small fraction of it is really nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay. When my mom passed, I couldn't get rid of anything.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, I struggled.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, So it's and it's honestly a lot of furniture too.
And the furniture is, you know, my grandparents furniture that
I ended up growing up with because my grandparents passed
before I was born or right after, and so then
it was my mom's furniture. Yeah, and I it just
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there's a lot of things, you know. Granted, my mom
was super into sewing. She she loved sewing and crafts
and stuff, and I never learned how to sew. I
saved all of her fabric and everything and all of
her half finished projects because at some point in my
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life and in her life, we ended up having the
same interest at different periods in our lives to where
I'm going, Okay, I'm going to save all her projects too,
and that way, maybe in twenty thirty years, you know,
when I'm older, and hey, maybe I'll end up getting
(19:16):
into selling and I can finish my mom's projects or
do something with material that she bought because she had,
you know, a plan for it or whatnot. So honestly,
most of my storage is sentimental, and yeah, there's there's
a piece of me and a giant piece of my
(19:38):
mom to where I just I can't downsize it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
At least not right now. I agree with you what
you're saying, Like if you have what an awesome thing
that would be, like fourteen years ago, you put away
all of these like fabrics and these have finished projects,
and then you know, ten years from now when you're
in your home and you everything settled, and you go
and pull that stuff out and you finish those projects,
(20:03):
and then you like, that's the kind of stuff I
think is awesome, right, Like you're bringing a generational thing
back and then potentially giving that to the next one.
And it's you know, it's some people it's really big,
and some people it's really small, right, Like these are
just little little pieces of you know, what came down
(20:26):
from grandparents and fabric from probably the nineties and early
two thousands. Right, it's not important fabric to anybody, but
to you, it's like a piece of your history. And
so that's yeah, I think that's I think that's part
of what I'm talking about, is that where you get
to be a new version of yourself. But it's just
sometimes you have to hold on to some of the
(20:47):
older stuff. So I like that. That's cool.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's a good little reminder of, you know, hell, like
when life was simpler when you were years old. You
pull something out of it, like oh man, when I was ten,
and then you start reminiscing of, you know, how how
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life was when you were ten years old, and it
could bring back good memories, it could bring back not
so good memories. But it's it's those memories that it's like, No,
I like to hold on to the memories. Plus, I
also have a lot of my mom's cool shit, Like
you're you're a Disney nerd.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I have those.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Collectible Disney plates, like the ones that you stick up
and frames, the porcelain ones that are painted really really nicely.
My mom had a whole collection of those, and I
would just love to put them up in my house
one day.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like just there's cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
There's more memento stuff and then future plan stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I know, like I know my mom does it, like
she's pretty big on this kind of stuff too. There
was a lot of years after my grandmother passed away
that my mom had like kept on to a lot
of stuff, and I know she still has like some
you know, heirloom things that are like hers, you know.
But I think for the most part, my mom always
(22:23):
grows a certain flower, which was my grandma's favorite flower.
She had always gotten it for her for on her birthday.
So I think my mom always has that flower grow
wherever she lives. She always has a garden of some type,
and she keeps that one flower growing all the time
just to kind of keep her mom with her because
I think she knows too, Like there's at some point,
(22:44):
like I there's some stuff that I do want for sure,
Like if we're talking about later on in life after
maybe after my parents are gone or whatever, there's definitely
some things that I want, but they're very few, and
they're very small, and they're just very per to me.
But I think more along that line, like I look
(23:06):
at my parents' house and I go, this's like a
lot of stuff that I know that I don't, you
know what I mean, Like I just don't and I
don't know how my brothers feel about it. But I'm like,
I don't know if that's going to be something I'm
going to take on, right, Like I could take these
things and leave it right, But I'm more like on
my mom's side with that, like I can have a
little piece of something like more than likely what will
(23:27):
happen is that I will take over always having that
plant in a garden where I live and just because
that's what my mom did for her mom. Yeah, so
I'll probably just do that right now. I have the
little things that i'll have, but all the rest of it.
But I mean that's not to say everybody should do that.
I think what you're talking about is great. You've you've
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held on to all this stuff, and you've got it
organized so that it's in a place where when when
the time comes for you to become the version of
you that opens all those boxes and goes through them
and and and can pull all those memories out and
put them up. I think that's something else that's that's
(24:12):
something you hold on too. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, some people think I'm absolutely insane for holding on.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well not much stores, but.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, I'm glad you said because I think you're absolutely
insane for keeping them much stuff and storage all the
time too. But like when you when you break it down,
like I can totally understand it, right, Like, it's it's
worth it. Right. A lot of people will say that's
that's what they do though, right Like they'll just tell you,
like it's just dumb, like why would you hold on
to all that stuff? Well, you don't understand, like right,
like my story is different than yours, so you don't
(24:46):
understand why those things and storage mean so much to me.
Right Like, there's there's signed memorabilia in my storage right now.
That means the world to me because of the thing
that I was going through at the time that I
you know, was able to like latch onto that character
and then just like kind of hyper focus on that
which got me through whatever that was. And then years
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later I get to meet that person in real life
who embodied that role and they signed a little action
figure for me, Like that's important to me. It's not
important to a lot of people, but it is to me.
And that's you know, you just have to kind of
you got to hold onto those things a little bit
because that's what's going to get you through, you know,
whatever might be coming next. I think I mean, it's
(25:28):
I think I'm not. I don't know how everybody operates.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But well, and here's the other thing, Like, I grew
up in the same house from the time I was
born until halfway through high school really and then yeah,
until I was fifteen, and then I live the next place.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I lived with my mom in our old condo.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I lived for nine years, and so everything that got
put into storage, twenty four years worth of my life
had been I had only lived in two places. So
it's kind of I was thinking about it when we
(26:14):
were driving out here to California right now last weekend.
When we were driving out I'm looking at the cities
that were passing by, and I started realizing, I have
lived in so many places since twenty eleven, just in
fourteen years. You know, for twenty four years of my life,
(26:38):
I only lived in two places. In the last fourteen years,
I lived in my car. I lived in about six
different cities out here, and I'm in California right now.
I'm not home in California. I lived in six different
(26:58):
cities out here. I've lived in oh Boy, one, two, three,
four or five different places. In Arizona. I lived in
Reno just at the one place. But it's like the
first twenty four years of my life, I they put
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and I only lived in two places. In the last
fourteen years since everything got put in storage, I've lived
in three different states and you know, over a dozen places.
And so those memories that are in storage is also
kind of like a memory of like a little bit
(27:42):
more stability, which.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Which do you like better? Yeah, is because I'm a
little different. I remember from a very young age my
parents moved us all the time, like I whenever I moved,
like now in my adult life, people always says because
my parents right, like got gypsy in me, right, But
(28:08):
to me, I'm like, if I get a board of
a place or tired of a place, w I don't
want to be there anymore. Like I just move Like
I'm like, oh, what's oway instead, and I'll just go,
But I don't. It wasn't until I kind of think
I've ever really had like a stable, long term home,
like more than a few years, until I was in
(28:28):
middle school, and I think I did five years in
this house. We did like five or six or something
like that. And then after I graduated high school, my
parents sold that house and had another one built like
in the same town, just a few blocks away. So
even then, like the house that I grew up in
right through my high school career, like was gone. I
didn't know anything about it anymore. And the new house
(28:48):
that they built was never my home, right and then
they moved a couple of times and all that, and
then I've moved over and over again. What do you
think is better? Because you have kind of the you know, like,
I'm at a point now where I'm like, I'm in
a set of roots, like I'm where I think I
want to be. So I'm probably going to look at
long term, you know, the next twenty thirty forty years
(29:09):
here somewhere. But what do you think is better being
able to just move whenever you want or be around
in different cities and see all the different things and
experiences and all that. Or do you like the stability
of just like a one like a one place.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
So the last fourteen years, a lot of the moving
was was kind of my choice was is kind of
okay after about two years, kind of over this place.
Let's let's go find another place. This is not where
I want to settle. But I will say whenever I
(29:52):
come out here. My dad still lives in the house
he grew up in, so when I was so when
I was really little, it was my grand my grandmother's house.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
She was the only grandparent I really knew.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
She passed away right after I turned seven, and then
my parents split up and my dad moved back into
that house. So the last fourteen years I really liked
moving around. Since my mom passed, I'm kind of getting
tired of everything being in storage and not settled somewhere permanently.
(30:33):
And when I come out here and I go to
my dad's house, it's kind of like a comfort thing
of stability to where I think, you know, getting older,
it's kind of at the point of, you know, it
was fun moving around, kind of doing like the gypsy
(30:54):
thing like you where you know, just keep moving around,
seeing what new places you can go. But I think
I'm kind of at the point where, Okay, I just
I want to figure out where a semi permanent place
that I want to end up. And yeah, because I
(31:18):
mean Supper, I don't know, I really don't like Arizona.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You said I'm back home now in California. I was
also born in California, but I don't claim it at all.
I don't I don't claim California at all in the least.
It is one of the worst places you can be
in my opinion. It's it's beautiful. It has beautiful places
and stuff, and you should see it. But to live
there is absolute chaos. I don't know why anybody chooses
(31:47):
to live there at this point.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right So I haven't lived out here in twelve years,
and I still say back home, I think. So the
whole thing that drove me to moving up to Reno originally,
(32:09):
other than we all know my ex husband was up
that way, but I fell in love with Reno when
I first visited because there were mountains and trees and
green everywhere. And yes, I hate that about Arizona, that
(32:31):
it's just flat and brown and ugly and hot. And
so for me, California is okay. You know, you get
where it's not super hot from four am till midnight, and.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's another of bringing back memories.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
But it's certain parts of it can be really really
beautiful to where if California wasn't the way that it
is financially and politic wise and all of that and
crowded and everything.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And I love California.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, if California had different things in those senses too, yes,
I believe it could be a thriving, beautiful state where
everybody should live. But right now that's not the case.
I say that I'm learning a lot of places. Like
(33:38):
I lived in Texas for almost four full years, and
I didn't even scratch the surface on some of the
places you could go and look at and see the
different beauty and all of that stuff. I stayed pretty
close to a couple of different areas that I knew
were what I enjoyed. And that's the same here right now,
Like I'm trying to go look at everything I possibly can,
(33:59):
because as great as this area is, like, there's so
many more awesome areas, and there's all kinds of places
that you can look at outside of these states and
stuff too. Like I would I if I could, I
would take trips all over the place North Carolina, all
those different East coast places, and then back up and
like where you're talking about, like northern California and Oregon
(34:20):
some great places to go look at and live. If
you're talking about, you know, becoming more sturdy and stable,
I think any of those places are you know, some
of them are worse than others. But you know, depending
on what you'd get, like or what you're looking for,
what type of lifestyle you want, you can find that
really in whatever. But the trade off is that, right,
(34:42):
like California is beautiful and it's got some great stuff,
but you know, you give half your paycheck to the
state and they'll fix it. But it so it's kind
of like why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So how many states have you actually been.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
To, like like lived in or just been through all
the way across just been through Let's see California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Connecticut, New York, Chicago, Illinois,
and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I've been to I've kind of been all the way around,
well not all the way around, but I've been to
a lot of different places just in my travels and
things like that. And that's why I say there's a
lot of beauty out there.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The That's that's one of my things is I haven't
been to a whole lot of places, Like I've never
been on the East Coast. I've only then Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma,
(36:11):
and Teloda.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I forgot about Utah and Colorado. Yes, I've been there.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
So I've only been to nine states and the furthest
I got was Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, that's why I say though. I mean, like, I
think Bobby's a real great example and we always talk
about him on this show, but he really thought for
a long time that what he was where he was
was where he only he could be, right like and
then when you when you show him like, yeah, you
can move to Texas and start completely over. And he did,
(36:46):
and he's he's been in three places in Texas and
he finally he found the one that he likes the most.
But even now he's optimistically looking at where else he
can go because he really likes other places in Texas too. Yeah,
and I know what will happen is because it's what
happened in Texas. But later this year, when I fly
(37:06):
him down here because I want him to see a
lot of this stuff too, he's probably gonna fall in
love with this place. And then by twenty twenty six
they'll be living down here. Maybe I don't know, but
I because he's that way too, right, Like you if
you see something where you're just like, man, I really
I really enjoy that, you know. Moving to Texas was
almost like a thing out of necessity, like I had
to do it and we did. And then visiting Florida
(37:31):
a couple of times was really like you fell in
love with that place, so you want to be around
that in it, So then coming down here and then
figuring out how to live here and then looking at
everything that's open to you, like I can go a
lot of places on the East Coast now within hours,
I can. I could just be in different states and
check out different things and things that you never because
(37:54):
you don't think you're able to do those things in life.
Like people will tell you that's a big expensive thing,
or you can only do that once in a life lifetime,
you have to save for twenty years. I guess that's
all bullshit. It's all bullshit. You can go do all
kinds of amazing things with your life and you don't
have to be rich or famous to do any of it.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
So do you have like a bucket list of places
that you want to.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Go, like in Florida. Yeah, Like Florida for me is
everything I want to see it all because I haven't
found anything in Florida that I don't like. I mean,
other than alligators, but even with that, Like I want
to see the Everglades, which is a little bit further
south the Keys. I'm only I'm only about five hours
(38:37):
away from the Keys, so I can drive from my
house to Key West and stay the night and check
out the ocean and the dolphins and all that. Several
cruise lines go out for like three day trips out
into the Bahamas and the islands and stuff. I want
to see all that. I just want to see what
it looks like. I'm afraid of the ocean and the
open ocean, I'm afraid of cruise ships, but I want
to see it. I just want to know what it
looks like. Miami is a beautiful place. I haven't got
(39:00):
to go down there yet, but I want to see that.
Tampa Bay is awesome, and once a lot of people
tell you, like, well, Florida is really small, but once
you start going into these places, you sure have to
realize they're like giant mega places. So like you can
go to Tampa, but you can't do everything in Tampa
in one day, like you really have to go down
there and soak it up and and see and so yeah.
(39:22):
I want to do a lot of traveling just here
and then uh, you know, later as we get more settled,
I want to go up the East Coast and stuff like,
there's a lot of cool stuff in North Carolina. I
want to see Tennessee, Kentucky, all these kinds of places
that you hear about in your life. I just want
to see them. I don't know what they look like.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I want to go to Wisconsin, do it?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
What are you waiting on?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I want to go to the Bankers. Yes, I need
to go to lambeau Field. M Yeah. No, I so
I think I told you.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I think I've even shown you after some of our
recordings my shot class collection, right, yes, so I got
Now I'm at like probably about one hundred and thirty
shotglasses because everyone kind of realized, oh, we bring Katie
(40:21):
back a shot class from wherever we end up going.
Originally it was, oh, this is going to be now
on my bucket list of places to go if someone
brings me back a shot class, Like I just recently
got a Louisiana one nice and I'm looking at my
(40:43):
collection going oh my gosh, people brought me. One of
my managers just brought me back one from Dubai. Like
I have Ireland and there, I have Scotland, I have Germany,
I have Italy. I have so much that now I
have like this whole list of bucket lists of places,
(41:03):
states and countries to go that I'm going, Oh my gosh,
well one day, one day, because I, like I said,
I haven't even gone to the East coast out here, so.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I would say, like it's whenever you think about Soia,
it's very possible. I don't know where in the world
I want to go. I do want to go to
other countries, just the loo good stuff. But I think
probably by twenty seven there's there's a thing now where
obviously Disney is a thing, but there's parks in other countries,
(41:40):
So Tokyo, Tokyo, Shanghai, or maybe it's just Shanghai, but
there's a there's a disneyland in Paris.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I was going to say, one looks awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah, those will be the things that we want to like,
those be like the catalyst for the trip, right, Like
we're going to go to this lam Paris. But while
I'm there, I also want to see the Eiffel Tower.
I want to see what Paris looks like. I want
to see I want to go to London, like I
really true, like proper London, And I'd like to see
a castle, like a real proper old world castle that's
(42:16):
just somewhere, you know, in the in the wilderness or
however that I don't know how they really work, but yeah,
like world.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Try Dracula's Castle would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, yeah, but less scary and no vampires. Would be
awesome in the daylight for sure. Yeah, I think all
that stuff. But here's like this is my thing, like
especially with this new year, and especially like twenty twenty
four was a huge lesson in this, like you can
say something in so in twenty twenty three and December
(42:48):
of twenty twenty three, we committed to the idea when
we came back from that trip from Florida that we
would we would move within a year to Florida and
become Floridians, right, Like that was the plan. And it took.
It took an incredible amount of weightlifting all the way
through like month after month after month of getting closer
(43:10):
and getting closer and and making sure that each month
you did something to get yourself in a position where
you coul propel yourself towards that goal. And then we
did it right, So like in November of twenty four
we moved here and everything you know is now getting
settled this January, right. And so when you start really
(43:31):
talking about what you want to do, I think you
can think about it and you could write it down,
but when you start talking to it, for you talk
to people all the time and they'll tell you, Oh,
it's crazy, you shouldn't do that. I can't believe you're
gonna do that. All right, Well great, I'm going to
talk to you less right because I need I need
people who are who are going to support that goal
of mine. So if you're telling people you're going to
(43:52):
go see a castle in you know, in Ireland or
something someday, like if people are telling you can't do that,
because well then those people shouldn't be really talking to
you a lot. But you can't accomplish all those things.
You can go and do them, and you can you
can just put action behind your plans and go and
become And it works with everything I mean like travel plan. Sure,
(44:12):
but what you want to do with your career, what
you want to do with your life, goals, all that stuff.
Just start putting any kind of action behind your goal
and you'll get there. It's crazy. It's crazy to think
that in a year, I'm in a completely different spot
just and I'm enjoying what I do a lot more
on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No, that's awesome. That's kind of my hope for.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
This whole New year is kind of start figuring out
more of what I want to do what not listening
to everyone going I don't think you'd like that, or
I don't think you should do that, or yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's what I'm talking about is is just start doing
the things that make you happy and start chasing the
dreams that you that you have, and you'll start, you know,
you'll start to feel a whole different version of you emerging,
and hopefully that gets you to the version of you
that gets to unpack all that stuff out of storage
and and you know, have your stability. So I think
(45:21):
that's the that's the message here, that's the New year message. Uh,
we're short one of our one of our company, we're
only a two's company today, But that's okay because everybody
has life, and life happens and and uh, you know whatever,
and we're okay, and we'll see Daniel on the next episode.
(45:42):
For us, though, I think that is probably it. Hopefully
you guys are are listening, you're and you're taking some
of this to heart. I'm not a therapist, I'm not
a doctor. I only play one on TV. But hopefully
we're inspiring you to go get all your stuff out
of storage and go through it and become better versions
of yourself, right, yeah, yep, all right.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Find any lost versions of yourself, yes.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yes, and and and give them a refresh because maybe
some of those lost versions are better versions and they
just need to be brought into the new year with you.
So try it out, you know, see what happens. But
that is going to do it for us this uh
this week.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
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I don't know if it would actually go in on
that much peanut butter as ninety six ounces, it's a lot,
but I mean divided by how many how many balls?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
About four hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, sounds pretty good though, I mean, and then you
whip them all together and everything right, and then you
just fridge they don't freeze right.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, so I mix all the dough and then roll.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Like a pan of balls. Ended up being like forty
five balls I could fit onto a cookie sheet pan.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh yeah, rolled.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Them, stuck tooth picks on them and dip them into
melted chocolate, and then stick them in the fridge. Well,
I freeze them before I dip them, just so they're
not all falling off of the toothpicks.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're gonna make sure that almost like a cake pop, right,
just to let them set on there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, kind of like they're a texture of like a
Reese's peanut butter cut.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
These are Bobby's favorite snacks, the balls on the stick, right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, my mom had sent me some and I let
him try some years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But so I make those and then I make some
happen to me too.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's exactly what happened to me. I was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Let him try the balls, and now.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I can't get rid of this dude. Every time I
turn around, he's calling me or texting me or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean, Yes, clearly my balls weren't as magical.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well I think they are. I don't know. I think
he just had his priorities mixed up as all.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, so yeah, what else did you do with them?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I made uh Oreo truffles, which those ones are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Dope.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Do you like oreos?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh, doude? I think. I think oreo is one of
the most versatile thing that you can like make something with.
I mean oriole milkshakes. I mean, come on, like you
put that stuff in a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The fact that there's so many flavors, Like last year
I had done the snickerdoodle oreos and made truffles out
of them, so they were snickerdoodle Oreo truffles.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mh.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This year I did the mint ones. But there's so
many different flavors, Like during like springtime, I'll do the
the carrot cake oreos and make carrot cake Oreo truffles
with like white chocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I'll take that over your balls any day.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, well, there's still balls. Okay, there's still balls.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Then I'll take I'll take those balls then will sound better?
The ninety six pounces of peanut butter, yikes, that's a
lot of powdered sugar too.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean, damn, I was definitely feeling feeling old because
after mixing all that dough, Man, my my hands were
killing me.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You don't have like the mixer machine, like the cake
mixer or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, so I do have like an older one, but
trying to mix butter and peanut butter and powdered sugar,
you have to get it like thoroughly mixed to where
my mom's recipe it even said. She even wrote down,
sit down and get comfortable. This is going to take
(04:09):
a while. And I think I ended up. I think
I ended up putting on Home Alone one and two
while I was mixing the dough.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Damn it to both of those movies to get you
through to mixing. Yeah, its bananas, well you know they
mixed thoroughly. Then.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
The buckeye bowl that my mom always used is a
good i don't know, freaking three feet in diameter.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a gam a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it's a lot of dough. And that bowl only
gets used once a year.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, I would, I don't. I don't know what else
you'd be mixing in it throughout the whole year, but
just that one thing, yep, is a lot. Okay, Well,
so you baked your way right into twenty twenty five,
right into the hearts of everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And you? How did you do in New Year's How
did you celebrate your on vacation?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So, because California is our behind Arizona, I pretty much
everyone in the family ended up staying up until what
Arizona's New Year's time would have been, so out here,
they only made it to eleven o'clock except for the daughter.
(05:33):
We stayed up watching movies. But I ended up calling
back home to my roommate and we video called and
did a shot for Arizona's New Year.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I pretty much didn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That sounds it sounds good. I mean, because is does
the idea of New Year's e like? Is that something
like you have to do like a midnight thing? Or
like because I'm old now, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Really I I like to try to at least make
it to midnight that way, I don't I don't feel
so old.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh shoot, yeah, I typically it's fine like that's It
was kind of strange because for so long I always
be like like in Nevada or whatever, like all right,
it's already New Year's like somewhere else, it's already twenty
twenty five in the UK, like no word on monsters
(06:34):
or aliens or anything. So I can go to bed.
It's fine, you know, as long as it was midnight somewhere.
But this year was crazy because I was at midnight
before everyone else and I went I went all, I
went ham on it. We went to the parks and
I hung out with you know, Mike Wazowski and Bou
(06:56):
and a bunch of the other characters, and there were
dance parties and all kinds of stuf. So I was
just soaking up the parks really, and all of a sudden,
I found myself in front of a big stage and
Mickey Mouse was counting down ten nine eighty seven, six,
five four three two one, and boom the fireworks went off.
And I felt I still felt old. I just felt
a little less old because right when that happened, I
(07:18):
was like, oh dude, it's midnight, Like I have got
to go to bed two hours ago. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So yeah, that's how you know you're old.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When it hits midnight, everyone's like cherry and fireworks and
kicking shots and everything, and you're going, Okay, I need
to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm like, how long is it going to take
us to get back to the car, because I still
I could get a nap in. Yeah. It's a lot, man,
But all in all, I mean it's a great thing.
I think I think twenty twenty four was a good year.
There was a lot of good things popping off in there.
I think, you know, we made some significant moves and stuff.
In twenty twenty five, you know, it looks like it's
(08:01):
gonna be pretty great too.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So far.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's only the it's only the fourth when this comes out.
But you know, see what happens. It seems like you
got kind of the same thing going on. I mean,
I think you had a pretty decent twenty twenty four.
You got a lot look forward to in twenty five. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I definitely had some changes. It was a bit stressful,
as as you now, making any sort of changes end
up being a little stressful going in to kind of
find your footing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But yeah, absolutely. I mean I think we all kind
of struggle with that a little bit, right because it
seems like it's a scary thing. Everything that can happen
probably will happen, and you've got all these things, you
got to look at what's next. And I think realistically
(08:55):
we started, we started like the moving process, like back
in probably like late September early October, right like really
like packing houses and getting things squared away and figuring
out you know, dollars and how to move and U
hauls and everything, and then getting down here and finding
(09:16):
a place and getting back to work at jobs and
everything else. So like, but it's just now, like in January,
starting to feel like like we can settle a little
bit because the holidays, because all the extra that comes
along with that and everything else. So like you know,
like I was living in the airbnb for like two
or three weeks trying to find a place to live, like,
(09:36):
so there was a lot of like uncertainty going on
with like where we were going to land and stuff.
But I think when you when you face those adversities
and those kind of things and like commit to the
idea that you're gonna do better, have better, like you know,
those are the obstacles, and a lot of people say, like, well,
those obstacles are in your way, but those obstacles are
(09:58):
the way, and so like getting through with them, it's
much more satisfying.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
On the other end, Yeah, it's just more of the unknown,
stressful part that I sometimes react a little bit more
strongly too.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think everybody kind of deals
with that on some level, right, because you have to
have you have to have like the thing that you
go to to kind of get away from that stress.
And sometimes when you're in these situations, that thing that
you go to is not available readily, so you kind
of have to force yourself to go through it a
little bit differently. But I think you pick up some
(10:36):
different habits and things like that too. I'll tell you, like,
one of the things for me was like one of
the main reasons I moved here was so that I
could have just access to the parks whenever I want, right.
So getting here though, was once we got through a
few of the struggles, we were able to get that
(10:57):
address locked in so that we could do we really
wanted the Florida resident thing on our annual pass. You
can buy an annual pass. If you live in California
or Oregon or whatever, it doesn't matter. But when you're
a Florida resident, there's a different thing. So we wanted that,
and once we got it, like, I was able to
supplement a lot of like things that I would normally do,
(11:21):
like my toy box, right my comic book groom, my
studio right. Like, I didn't have all my stuff. It
was in storage, so I didn't have it alreadily available
to like look at or or collaborate with or whatever.
But I did have full access to this like imagination pavilion, right,
Like I could go to all these parks just on
(11:42):
a whim and kind of like get my mind to
do something different with the stress because I didn't have to. Really,
I think it really allowed me to think of things
and look at things in a different light, in a
different manner. And I think that's hugely important in whatever
you're doing. I mean, I don't think everybody's gonna go
(12:03):
to Disney World for that, but whatever your thing is, Like,
if you have the ability to go do something that's different,
really challenge yourself to do that, it's good for you.
It helps with that stress.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, I uh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm kind of on the opposite end of that, where
pretty much all my stuff has been locked up in
storage for almost fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And I really that's a question I've been wanting to
ask you for a long time, and I mean it
is probably a good time to ask it. I mean realistically, right,
it's real talk, Like, with all your stuff that's in
storage for fourteen years, do you honestly think that whatever's
in there is something that you just can't be without?
Like does it change you if it all comes out
(12:52):
and gets put in if by some miracle, like you
got a mansion today, right, like a ten bedroom house
and you could go pull it all out put it
in your house, does it make you a different person?
Does it make you a better person? Does it? What
kind of effect does that have?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I feel like it would.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
That it would kind of like remind me of where
I came from and who I was before I had
major life life challenges because all that stuff got locked up. Sure,
I put I put away in storage right before I
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ended up homeless, right before I ended up on my
little short drugspurt, before I got married and everything. So
I've actually what was it about four and a half
years ago, I pulled everything out of storage in California
moved to Arizona, so I got to see and I
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was driving my boyfriend crazy because I was wanting to
open every single box and kind of like revisit memories
and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And then yeah, you want to see the pieces of you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Sure? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And then a couple of months ago and October we
moved because I had a ten by fifteen and then
ten by twenty. I was paying four hundred dollars a
month in storage units and it was in a bad area.
I ended up gigging attacked at my storage like a
(14:36):
year ago, with someone trying to steal my car when
I was going into the complex. And so this year
we decided we were going to move both storage units
that were completely I mean tetrists the amount of stuff
that was in there into a bigger unit closer in
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a better area. So actually in October I back through
all of that stuff and moved everything into a ten
by thirty. And so it's like, I keep revisiting stuff
that's in there and Nope, still don't want to get
rid of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, yeah, do you I guess it? Do you think
like the stuff that's in there, Like obviously when we
put stuff in storage, like one, there is a necessity,
right because we can't we can't have it with us
right now. Like I moved from a five bedroom house
to a two bedroom apartment, right, Like I can't keep
everything with me, especially like I have lawnmowers and appliances
(15:36):
and stuff in storage, like I just I but like
I have to keep that so that in the future
when I go, like I have it, right but like yeah,
so like my comic book collection, like all my toys
and everything to your point, right, like I think maybe
a third of it is in the apartment now because
I just don't have the extra space and I want
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all that stuff out, but I can't. So I do
feel like, you know, there's like a piece of meat,
like a piece of my identity those things that I've
collected and have put up, and you know, some of
them are like signed collectibles and stuff like that stuff
is in there. There's clothes that are in there, and
there's stuff. But like I don't know if if I
feel like if if I lost it all the day
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or if I never went and got it out of storage,
if I would be you know, without anything I feel
almost like I would just keep moving forward as this
new person. So I guess I was what I'm asking. So, like,
you have all of that stuff, how much of that
stuff in there do you think is like stuff that
you absolutely like if you pulled it all out, went
through all of it, like you think like a third
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of it is stuff that you absolutely need, or like
you could probably let go of some of the other
stuff just because like a version of you that was
fourteen years ago that put it all in there, like
has become such a new, stronger, like different version that
like you could just like glance at it and go, oh, yeah,
that reminds me of something I don't do anymore and
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then let it go. Is that something you think you
could do or.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I mean I've done that maybe with a couple little things.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Honestly, it it's more of especially since my mom passed away,
it's more of, oh, this reminds me of when she
and I took a trip to Catalina, or you know,
I got this ear.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And you want that you want that stuff present in
your house right like somewhere some days.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, So, like honestly, because my storage, so the amount
of stuff that is in my ten by thirty, my
storage that had all of my stuff in California was
a five x ten. So we're looking at a very
small fraction of it is really nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay. When my mom passed, I couldn't get rid of anything.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, I struggled.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, So it's and it's honestly a lot of furniture too.
And the furniture is, you know, my grandparents furniture that
I ended up growing up with because my grandparents passed
before I was born or right after, and so then
it was my mom's furniture. Yeah, and I it just
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there's a lot of things, you know. Granted, my mom
was super into sewing. She she loved sewing and crafts
and stuff, and I never learned how to sew. I
saved all of her fabric and everything and all of
her half finished projects because at some point in my
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life and in her life, we ended up having the
same interest at different periods in our lives to where
I'm going, Okay, I'm going to save all her projects too,
and that way, maybe in twenty thirty years, you know,
when I'm older, and hey, maybe I'll end up getting
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into selling and I can finish my mom's projects or
do something with material that she bought because she had,
you know, a plan for it or whatnot. So honestly,
most of my storage is sentimental, and yeah, there's there's
a piece of me and a giant piece of my
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mom to where I just I can't downsize it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
At least not right now. I agree with you what
you're saying, Like if you have what an awesome thing
that would be, like fourteen years ago, you put away
all of these like fabrics and these have finished projects,
and then you know, ten years from now when you're
in your home and you everything settled, and you go
and pull that stuff out and you finish those projects,
(20:03):
and then you like, that's the kind of stuff I
think is awesome, right, Like you're bringing a generational thing
back and then potentially giving that to the next one.
And it's you know, it's some people it's really big,
and some people it's really small, right, Like these are
just little little pieces of you know, what came down
(20:26):
from grandparents and fabric from probably the nineties and early
two thousands. Right, it's not important fabric to anybody, but
to you, it's like a piece of your history. And
so that's yeah, I think that's I think that's part
of what I'm talking about, is that where you get
to be a new version of yourself. But it's just
sometimes you have to hold on to some of the
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older stuff. So I like that. That's cool.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's a good little reminder of, you know, hell, like
when life was simpler when you were years old. You
pull something out of it, like oh man, when I was ten,
and then you start reminiscing of, you know, how how
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life was when you were ten years old, and it
could bring back good memories, it could bring back not
so good memories. But it's it's those memories that it's like, No,
I like to hold on to the memories. Plus, I
also have a lot of my mom's cool shit, Like
you're you're a Disney nerd.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I have those.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Collectible Disney plates, like the ones that you stick up
and frames, the porcelain ones that are painted really really nicely.
My mom had a whole collection of those, and I
would just love to put them up in my house
one day.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like just there's cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
There's more memento stuff and then future plan stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I know, like I know my mom does it, like
she's pretty big on this kind of stuff too. There
was a lot of years after my grandmother passed away
that my mom had like kept on to a lot
of stuff, and I know she still has like some
you know, heirloom things that are like hers, you know.
But I think for the most part, my mom always
(22:23):
grows a certain flower, which was my grandma's favorite flower.
She had always gotten it for her for on her birthday.
So I think my mom always has that flower grow
wherever she lives. She always has a garden of some type,
and she keeps that one flower growing all the time
just to kind of keep her mom with her because
I think she knows too, Like there's at some point,
(22:44):
like I there's some stuff that I do want for sure,
Like if we're talking about later on in life after
maybe after my parents are gone or whatever, there's definitely
some things that I want, but they're very few, and
they're very small, and they're just very per to me.
But I think more along that line, like I look
(23:06):
at my parents' house and I go, this's like a
lot of stuff that I know that I don't, you
know what I mean, Like I just don't and I
don't know how my brothers feel about it. But I'm like,
I don't know if that's going to be something I'm
going to take on, right, Like I could take these
things and leave it right, But I'm more like on
my mom's side with that, like I can have a
little piece of something like more than likely what will
(23:27):
happen is that I will take over always having that
plant in a garden where I live and just because
that's what my mom did for her mom. Yeah, so
I'll probably just do that right now. I have the
little things that i'll have, but all the rest of it.
But I mean that's not to say everybody should do that.
I think what you're talking about is great. You've you've
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held on to all this stuff, and you've got it
organized so that it's in a place where when when
the time comes for you to become the version of
you that opens all those boxes and goes through them
and and and can pull all those memories out and
put them up. I think that's something else that's that's
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something you hold on too. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, some people think I'm absolutely insane for holding on.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well not much stores, but.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, I'm glad you said because I think you're absolutely
insane for keeping them much stuff and storage all the
time too. But like when you when you break it down,
like I can totally understand it, right, Like, it's it's
worth it. Right. A lot of people will say that's
that's what they do though, right Like they'll just tell you,
like it's just dumb, like why would you hold on
to all that stuff? Well, you don't understand, like right,
like my story is different than yours, so you don't
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understand why those things and storage mean so much to me.
Right Like, there's there's signed memorabilia in my storage right now.
That means the world to me because of the thing
that I was going through at the time that I
you know, was able to like latch onto that character
and then just like kind of hyper focus on that
which got me through whatever that was. And then years
(25:08):
later I get to meet that person in real life
who embodied that role and they signed a little action
figure for me, Like that's important to me. It's not
important to a lot of people, but it is to me.
And that's you know, you just have to kind of
you got to hold onto those things a little bit
because that's what's going to get you through, you know,
whatever might be coming next. I think I mean, it's
(25:28):
I think I'm not. I don't know how everybody operates.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But well, and here's the other thing, Like, I grew
up in the same house from the time I was
born until halfway through high school really and then yeah,
until I was fifteen, and then I live the next place.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I lived with my mom in our old condo.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I lived for nine years, and so everything that got
put into storage, twenty four years worth of my life
had been I had only lived in two places. So
it's kind of I was thinking about it when we
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were driving out here to California right now last weekend.
When we were driving out I'm looking at the cities
that were passing by, and I started realizing, I have
lived in so many places since twenty eleven, just in
fourteen years. You know, for twenty four years of my life,
(26:38):
I only lived in two places. In the last fourteen years,
I lived in my car. I lived in about six
different cities out here, and I'm in California right now.
I'm not home in California. I lived in six different
(26:58):
cities out here. I've lived in oh Boy, one, two, three,
four or five different places. In Arizona. I lived in
Reno just at the one place. But it's like the
first twenty four years of my life, I they put
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and I only lived in two places. In the last
fourteen years since everything got put in storage, I've lived
in three different states and you know, over a dozen places.
And so those memories that are in storage is also
kind of like a memory of like a little bit
(27:42):
more stability, which.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Which do you like better? Yeah, is because I'm a
little different. I remember from a very young age my
parents moved us all the time, like I whenever I moved,
like now in my adult life, people always says because
my parents right, like got gypsy in me, right, But
(28:08):
to me, I'm like, if I get a board of
a place or tired of a place, w I don't
want to be there anymore. Like I just move Like
I'm like, oh, what's oway instead, and I'll just go,
But I don't. It wasn't until I kind of think
I've ever really had like a stable, long term home,
like more than a few years, until I was in
(28:28):
middle school, and I think I did five years in
this house. We did like five or six or something
like that. And then after I graduated high school, my
parents sold that house and had another one built like
in the same town, just a few blocks away. So
even then, like the house that I grew up in
right through my high school career, like was gone. I
didn't know anything about it anymore. And the new house
(28:48):
that they built was never my home, right and then
they moved a couple of times and all that, and
then I've moved over and over again. What do you
think is better? Because you have kind of the you know, like,
I'm at a point now where I'm like, I'm in
a set of roots, like I'm where I think I
want to be. So I'm probably going to look at
long term, you know, the next twenty thirty forty years
(29:09):
here somewhere. But what do you think is better being
able to just move whenever you want or be around
in different cities and see all the different things and
experiences and all that. Or do you like the stability
of just like a one like a one place.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
So the last fourteen years, a lot of the moving
was was kind of my choice was is kind of
okay after about two years, kind of over this place.
Let's let's go find another place. This is not where
I want to settle. But I will say whenever I
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come out here. My dad still lives in the house
he grew up in, so when I was so when
I was really little, it was my grand my grandmother's house.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
She was the only grandparent I really knew.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
She passed away right after I turned seven, and then
my parents split up and my dad moved back into
that house. So the last fourteen years I really liked
moving around. Since my mom passed, I'm kind of getting
tired of everything being in storage and not settled somewhere permanently.
(30:33):
And when I come out here and I go to
my dad's house, it's kind of like a comfort thing
of stability to where I think, you know, getting older,
it's kind of at the point of, you know, it
was fun moving around, kind of doing like the gypsy
(30:54):
thing like you where you know, just keep moving around,
seeing what new places you can go. But I think
I'm kind of at the point where, Okay, I just
I want to figure out where a semi permanent place
that I want to end up. And yeah, because I
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mean Supper, I don't know, I really don't like Arizona.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You said I'm back home now in California. I was
also born in California, but I don't claim it at all.
I don't I don't claim California at all in the least.
It is one of the worst places you can be
in my opinion. It's it's beautiful. It has beautiful places
and stuff, and you should see it. But to live
there is absolute chaos. I don't know why anybody chooses
(31:47):
to live there at this point.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right So I haven't lived out here in twelve years,
and I still say back home, I think. So the
whole thing that drove me to moving up to Reno originally,
(32:09):
other than we all know my ex husband was up
that way, but I fell in love with Reno when
I first visited because there were mountains and trees and
green everywhere. And yes, I hate that about Arizona, that
(32:31):
it's just flat and brown and ugly and hot. And
so for me, California is okay. You know, you get
where it's not super hot from four am till midnight, and.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's another of bringing back memories.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
But it's certain parts of it can be really really
beautiful to where if California wasn't the way that it
is financially and politic wise and all of that and
crowded and everything.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And I love California.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, if California had different things in those senses too, yes,
I believe it could be a thriving, beautiful state where
everybody should live. But right now that's not the case.
I say that I'm learning a lot of places. Like
(33:38):
I lived in Texas for almost four full years, and
I didn't even scratch the surface on some of the
places you could go and look at and see the
different beauty and all of that stuff. I stayed pretty
close to a couple of different areas that I knew
were what I enjoyed. And that's the same here right now,
Like I'm trying to go look at everything I possibly can,
(33:59):
because as great as this area is, like, there's so
many more awesome areas, and there's all kinds of places
that you can look at outside of these states and
stuff too. Like I would I if I could, I
would take trips all over the place North Carolina, all
those different East coast places, and then back up and
like where you're talking about, like northern California and Oregon
(34:20):
some great places to go look at and live. If
you're talking about, you know, becoming more sturdy and stable,
I think any of those places are you know, some
of them are worse than others. But you know, depending
on what you'd get, like or what you're looking for,
what type of lifestyle you want, you can find that
really in whatever. But the trade off is that, right,
(34:42):
like California is beautiful and it's got some great stuff,
but you know, you give half your paycheck to the
state and they'll fix it. But it so it's kind
of like why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So how many states have you actually been.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
To, like like lived in or just been through all
the way across just been through Let's see California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Connecticut, New York, Chicago, Illinois,
and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I've been to I've kind of been all the way around,
well not all the way around, but I've been to
a lot of different places just in my travels and
things like that. And that's why I say there's a
lot of beauty out there.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The That's that's one of my things is I haven't
been to a whole lot of places, Like I've never
been on the East Coast. I've only then Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma,
(36:11):
and Teloda.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I forgot about Utah and Colorado. Yes, I've been there.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
So I've only been to nine states and the furthest
I got was Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, that's why I say though. I mean, like, I
think Bobby's a real great example and we always talk
about him on this show, but he really thought for
a long time that what he was where he was
was where he only he could be, right like and
then when you when you show him like, yeah, you
can move to Texas and start completely over. And he did,
(36:46):
and he's he's been in three places in Texas and
he finally he found the one that he likes the most.
But even now he's optimistically looking at where else he
can go because he really likes other places in Texas too. Yeah,
and I know what will happen is because it's what
happened in Texas. But later this year, when I fly
(37:06):
him down here because I want him to see a
lot of this stuff too, he's probably gonna fall in
love with this place. And then by twenty twenty six
they'll be living down here. Maybe I don't know, but
I because he's that way too, right, Like you if
you see something where you're just like, man, I really
I really enjoy that, you know. Moving to Texas was
almost like a thing out of necessity, like I had
to do it and we did. And then visiting Florida
(37:31):
a couple of times was really like you fell in
love with that place, so you want to be around
that in it, So then coming down here and then
figuring out how to live here and then looking at
everything that's open to you, like I can go a
lot of places on the East Coast now within hours,
I can. I could just be in different states and
check out different things and things that you never because
(37:54):
you don't think you're able to do those things in life.
Like people will tell you that's a big expensive thing,
or you can only do that once in a life lifetime,
you have to save for twenty years. I guess that's
all bullshit. It's all bullshit. You can go do all
kinds of amazing things with your life and you don't
have to be rich or famous to do any of it.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
So do you have like a bucket list of places
that you want to.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Go, like in Florida. Yeah, Like Florida for me is
everything I want to see it all because I haven't
found anything in Florida that I don't like. I mean,
other than alligators, but even with that, Like I want
to see the Everglades, which is a little bit further
south the Keys. I'm only I'm only about five hours
(38:37):
away from the Keys, so I can drive from my
house to Key West and stay the night and check
out the ocean and the dolphins and all that. Several
cruise lines go out for like three day trips out
into the Bahamas and the islands and stuff. I want
to see all that. I just want to see what
it looks like. I'm afraid of the ocean and the
open ocean, I'm afraid of cruise ships, but I want
to see it. I just want to know what it
looks like. Miami is a beautiful place. I haven't got
(39:00):
to go down there yet, but I want to see that.
Tampa Bay is awesome, and once a lot of people
tell you, like, well, Florida is really small, but once
you start going into these places, you sure have to
realize they're like giant mega places. So like you can
go to Tampa, but you can't do everything in Tampa
in one day, like you really have to go down
there and soak it up and and see and so yeah.
(39:22):
I want to do a lot of traveling just here
and then uh, you know, later as we get more settled,
I want to go up the East Coast and stuff like,
there's a lot of cool stuff in North Carolina. I
want to see Tennessee, Kentucky, all these kinds of places
that you hear about in your life. I just want
to see them. I don't know what they look like.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I want to go to Wisconsin, do it?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
What are you waiting on?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I want to go to the Bankers. Yes, I need
to go to lambeau Field. M Yeah. No, I so
I think I told you.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I think I've even shown you after some of our
recordings my shot class collection, right, yes, so I got
Now I'm at like probably about one hundred and thirty
shotglasses because everyone kind of realized, oh, we bring Katie
(40:21):
back a shot class from wherever we end up going.
Originally it was, oh, this is going to be now
on my bucket list of places to go if someone
brings me back a shot class, Like I just recently
got a Louisiana one nice and I'm looking at my
(40:43):
collection going oh my gosh, people brought me. One of
my managers just brought me back one from Dubai. Like
I have Ireland and there, I have Scotland, I have Germany,
I have Italy. I have so much that now I
have like this whole list of bucket lists of places,
(41:03):
states and countries to go that I'm going, Oh my gosh,
well one day, one day, because I, like I said,
I haven't even gone to the East coast out here, so.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I would say, like it's whenever you think about Soia,
it's very possible. I don't know where in the world
I want to go. I do want to go to
other countries, just the loo good stuff. But I think
probably by twenty seven there's there's a thing now where
obviously Disney is a thing, but there's parks in other countries,
(41:40):
So Tokyo, Tokyo, Shanghai, or maybe it's just Shanghai, but
there's a there's a disneyland in Paris.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I was going to say, one looks awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah, those will be the things that we want to like,
those be like the catalyst for the trip, right, Like
we're going to go to this lam Paris. But while
I'm there, I also want to see the Eiffel Tower.
I want to see what Paris looks like. I want
to see I want to go to London, like I
really true, like proper London, And I'd like to see
a castle, like a real proper old world castle that's
(42:16):
just somewhere, you know, in the in the wilderness or
however that I don't know how they really work, but yeah,
like world.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Try Dracula's Castle would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, yeah, but less scary and no vampires. Would be
awesome in the daylight for sure. Yeah, I think all
that stuff. But here's like this is my thing, like
especially with this new year, and especially like twenty twenty
four was a huge lesson in this, like you can
say something in so in twenty twenty three and December
(42:48):
of twenty twenty three, we committed to the idea when
we came back from that trip from Florida that we
would we would move within a year to Florida and
become Floridians, right, Like that was the plan. And it took.
It took an incredible amount of weightlifting all the way
through like month after month after month of getting closer
(43:10):
and getting closer and and making sure that each month
you did something to get yourself in a position where
you coul propel yourself towards that goal. And then we
did it right, So like in November of twenty four
we moved here and everything you know is now getting
settled this January, right. And so when you start really
(43:31):
talking about what you want to do, I think you
can think about it and you could write it down,
but when you start talking to it, for you talk
to people all the time and they'll tell you, Oh,
it's crazy, you shouldn't do that. I can't believe you're
gonna do that. All right, Well great, I'm going to
talk to you less right because I need I need
people who are who are going to support that goal
of mine. So if you're telling people you're going to
(43:52):
go see a castle in you know, in Ireland or
something someday, like if people are telling you can't do that,
because well then those people shouldn't be really talking to
you a lot. But you can't accomplish all those things.
You can go and do them, and you can you
can just put action behind your plans and go and
become And it works with everything I mean like travel plan. Sure,
(44:12):
but what you want to do with your career, what
you want to do with your life, goals, all that stuff.
Just start putting any kind of action behind your goal
and you'll get there. It's crazy. It's crazy to think
that in a year, I'm in a completely different spot
just and I'm enjoying what I do a lot more
on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No, that's awesome. That's kind of my hope for.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
This whole New year is kind of start figuring out
more of what I want to do what not listening
to everyone going I don't think you'd like that, or
I don't think you should do that, or yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's what I'm talking about is is just start doing
the things that make you happy and start chasing the
dreams that you that you have, and you'll start, you know,
you'll start to feel a whole different version of you emerging,
and hopefully that gets you to the version of you
that gets to unpack all that stuff out of storage
and and you know, have your stability. So I think
(45:21):
that's the that's the message here, that's the New year message. Uh,
we're short one of our one of our company, we're
only a two's company today, But that's okay because everybody
has life, and life happens and and uh, you know whatever,
and we're okay, and we'll see Daniel on the next episode.
(45:42):
For us, though, I think that is probably it. Hopefully
you guys are are listening, you're and you're taking some
of this to heart. I'm not a therapist, I'm not
a doctor. I only play one on TV. But hopefully
we're inspiring you to go get all your stuff out
of storage and go through it and become better versions
of yourself, right, yeah, yep, all right.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Find any lost versions of yourself, yes.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yes, and and and give them a refresh because maybe
some of those lost versions are better versions and they
just need to be brought into the new year with you.
So try it out, you know, see what happens. But
that is going to do it for us this uh
this week.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
UH.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
The Three's Company podcast is part of the b word
Media group of podcasts. Check out all of our friends
uh in their podcast at the links in the descriptions below,
and have fun listening to all that until we get back.
Until next time. I bid you adod by
Speaker 2 (46:39):
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